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Executive and Legislative documents laid before the General Assembly of North-Carolina [1876; 1877]

1876-'77.] Document No 1. 21
we have in various parts of the State, some of which is not
excelled for quality elsewhere in the earth. We ought to
get out and use more of our timber, and send more of it
than we do to the markets of the world. We ought to di-rect
very much more of our attention and energies to the
great work of building up a home market for our people*
and of thus living more within ourselves. A policy of this
kind would benefit every interest, and would especiall}' re-dound
to the advantage and prosperity of the farmers, by
creating a demand here at home for their products. It
would also save millions of dollars per annum to the State,
which are now expended outside our borders, and which
constitutes a constant drain upon our wealth. It would also
diversify labor, and give enipio^nnent to all classes of our
people, without which we can not hope to advance rapidly
in intelligence and wealth.
I can not, gentlemen, too strongly commend this subject
to your attention and consideration.
IMMIGRATION,
I beg leave to renew and urge the recommendations here-tofore
made by m}^ predecessors and myself on the subject
of immigration. No State has a finer climate than North
Carolina, and her soil is rich and so varied that nearly all
the fruits and products of the earth common to our whole
country can be cultivated and realized here by the hand of
industry. Besides, we have inexhaustible deposits of the
most valuable minerals ; we have water power in the greatest
abundance for turning machinery ; and we have vast forests
of the best timber, thus far barely touched by the hand of
man. In a word, there is no region of the earth, so far as
climate and material resources are concerned, which is more
inviting than our State is to the immigrant. I trust that
your legislation will be such as to hold out inducements to

1876-'77.] Document No 1. 21
we have in various parts of the State, some of which is not
excelled for quality elsewhere in the earth. We ought to
get out and use more of our timber, and send more of it
than we do to the markets of the world. We ought to di-rect
very much more of our attention and energies to the
great work of building up a home market for our people*
and of thus living more within ourselves. A policy of this
kind would benefit every interest, and would especiall}' re-dound
to the advantage and prosperity of the farmers, by
creating a demand here at home for their products. It
would also save millions of dollars per annum to the State,
which are now expended outside our borders, and which
constitutes a constant drain upon our wealth. It would also
diversify labor, and give enipio^nnent to all classes of our
people, without which we can not hope to advance rapidly
in intelligence and wealth.
I can not, gentlemen, too strongly commend this subject
to your attention and consideration.
IMMIGRATION,
I beg leave to renew and urge the recommendations here-tofore
made by m}^ predecessors and myself on the subject
of immigration. No State has a finer climate than North
Carolina, and her soil is rich and so varied that nearly all
the fruits and products of the earth common to our whole
country can be cultivated and realized here by the hand of
industry. Besides, we have inexhaustible deposits of the
most valuable minerals ; we have water power in the greatest
abundance for turning machinery ; and we have vast forests
of the best timber, thus far barely touched by the hand of
man. In a word, there is no region of the earth, so far as
climate and material resources are concerned, which is more
inviting than our State is to the immigrant. I trust that
your legislation will be such as to hold out inducements to